Hazards Cambridge A2

All volcanoes are found on land

• True

• False

What is a mantle plume or hotspot?

• A jet of hot material rising from deep within the mantle.

• A jet of cold material rising from deep within the mantle

• A jet of hot material rising from deep within the crust

• A jet of hot material rising from deep within the core.

Which body wave arrives first following an earthquake?

• P waves

• S waves

• Love waves

• Rayleigh waves

What factors causes earthquake damage to be less

• Loose material rock

• Having insurance

• Better quality buildings

• Rush hour

What secondary hazard cuts communication links and results in more deaths in a lot of earthquake situations like in Nepal

• Tsunamis

• Landslides

• Fires

• Flooding

Which way listed can humans cause earthquakes in their quest for gas supplies?

• Building cities

• Building dams

• Disposal of liquid waste

• Fracking

What eruption is characterised by persistant fissure eruptions?

• Hawaiian eruptions

• Icelandic eruptions

• Vulcanian eruptions

• Plinian eruption

When and where was the Lake Nyos disaster?

• Cameroon, 1984

• Colombia, 1985

• Cameroon, 1986

• Chile, 1987

What impacts peoples perception of risk?

• Experience and freedoms

• Experience, material well being, and personality

• Personality and material well being

• Personality, housing conditions and job

Click the choices that people have in terms of living with hazards

• Do nothing.

• Adjust through preparation methods.

• Leave the area.

• Stop the hazard